Abdulrahman Alshowaiki

BIOGRAPHIE

Abdulrahman Alshowaiki was born in 1993 in Damascus, Syria. His father was a pilot and his mother a lawyer. After graduating high school, Abdul attended the Arab International University where he studied economics. Because of the Syrian war in 2011, Abdul, at the age of 19, fled Syria with his family to start a new life somewhere in Europe. It took him almost 4 years to get to Belguim and in this period he traveled between Lebanon, Egypt, Turkey, Senegal and Gambia. In 2015 he arrived to Belgium with his childhood dream of becoming a filmmaker. Abdul decided to change his studies, so he attended The LUCA School of Arts, campus Narafi. In 2020/2021 Abdul graduated with a short documentary titled "Trip to heaven". The documentary gave him the chance to work with one of the best journalist in Belgium, Rudi Vranckx. He was eager to improve his skills, so he decided to go back and complete his master degree in directing at the LUCA School of Arts, where he made his first fiction film "MONA".

FILMOGRAPHIE